The Ultimate Mud Room Cabinet Organization!
April 27, 2021
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Using built in drawer cabinets for awesome mud and laundry room storage!
I love
having our big,
beautiful laundry room that I recently made over. This room works like
a well oiled machine now that I've added so much storage!
I wanted to show
you how I've organized everything in the new cabinets on this wall:
As a reminder, here's how this spot started -- just a table for folding
clothes:
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Problem was, that surface was always covered with STUFF.
We moved the upper cabinets from over the washer and dryer to this corner
instead. I keep our laundry items in one cabinet:
We have extra detergent, our
fabric shavers, stain spray, etc. on these shelves. It's so nice to be able to reach these
now!
On the other side I keep all of the cleaning supplies. These used to be in the
new cat closet:
By the way, I used to keep some cleaning supplies in different areas -- for
example, in an upstairs bathroom or in the basement. I've learned if I keep it
all in one spot I can keep track of what we need much better.
Because I installed four 18 inch cabinets below, we had 12 drawers to fill and
organize. Heaven! 😍 Here's a look inside a few of them.
The top drawers are shallow -- I organized those with
flat drawer bins for charging cords (separated into those for phones and for other
rechargeable items) and outlet chargers:
Those plastic drawer bins are my absolute favorite! So easy to stack or store right next to each
other.
And I used these awesome
plastic bins with lids
for batteries and Command hooks/strips in this drawer:
The other top drawers hold random stuff like sunglasses and pens and all of
our mail that needs to be sorted. I LOVE having all of the mail out of
sight!
The second and third rows are much deeper. This one is probably my
favorite:
Is it weird to have a favorite drawer? :)
This one holds all the stuff I don't
want to deal with at any given moment. Things I need to return, items that are
"to do's" and little items I've picked for a future gift. I LOVE this
drawer.
I put all of our extra office supplies into this one:
See all that tape? That's what happens when you don't keep like items together
in your home. When I purged all of our stuff years ago I realized how many
rolls of tape we had. 😲 We'll have tape, rubber bands, and paper clips till
the day we die.
Most of our gift wrap supplies used to hang in the closet, but I condensed it
down into this drawer:
If you ever have to blow up a bunch of balloons, that
electric balloon inflator
is AWESOME! It makes it so easy and fast.
I still have our wrapping paper on the back of the
mud room closet door:
And finally, the bottom set of drawers holds more utility items like extension
cords and remote switches:
Most of these are only needed around the holidays, but I wanted easy access
year-round.
And our light bulbs are super easy to reach now as well:
No idea why we have so many light bulbs. They seem to multiply. Now that we use mostly LED I may just donate the older ones.
Adding all of this storage has me one step closer to a place for everything
and everything in its place! Some of these items were in
the closet in here before now, some were in the garage and some just floated around the house
till one of us dealt with them. Ha!
We even have an EMPTY drawer. As we use up some of the extras even more space
will open up. It took a few weeks for me to remember which drawer was what --
my husband will be opening a few at a time for awhile though. 😂
And of course, I had to have some pretty organization on display as
well:
You can read more about that
DIY laundry shelf and the
pretty waterproof labels can be found here.
See my favorite
plastic storage bins with the lids here and the open,
stackable plastic bins as well!
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Sarah, you are great. You have done an outstanding job with this makeover. Oh how I would LOVE to have the mail out of sight. This is the first I have seen the wall paper behind the laundry machines and I absolutely adore it! Beautiful job as always and thank you so much for showing all you do, I am glad I found your blog!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much!! :)
DeleteNicely done. Love the organization. Looks lovely and clean and I love Kitty.
ReplyDeletebottom cabinets-did you buy as one? I have stackable washer dryer directly across and need to be cognizant if/when they (w/d) need to be pulled out for maintenance, etc... my current setup is VERY similar :) to your before but would LOVE that additional storage!! Looks Fantastic!!!!
ReplyDeleteI bought four and installed them -- you can see how here! https://www.thriftydecorchick.com/2021/03/tips-for-installing-base-cabinets.html
Deletenevermind - I've found ALL the info!! :) any suggestions on being able to make the bottom cabinets a bit 'remote'. TIA!
ReplyDeleteLove Colby 💘!!!
ReplyDeleteYou might want to rethink your battery storage. Ends touching--which can happen when they shift around in the drawer--can be a fire hazard, especially 9V. When I learned this I used small found containers to keep each type of battery facing the same direction; the 9Vs are in a tomato paste tin that holds them upright.
ReplyDeletePurpose-made battery holders are nice if you have lots.
Good point! I put those in separate containers after reading this.
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